How we handle your information.

Ridgepath Partners Limited (BR No. 81334101), trading as Ridgepath Search ("Ridgepath", "we") is the data user responsible for personal data collected through this website. We are based in Hong Kong and handle personal data in line with the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (Cap. 486).

• Candidates: your name, contact details, current role and organisation, location, LinkedIn profile, career preferences, anything you choose to tell us, and your CV.
• Clients: your name, work contact details, organisation and title, and the details of the search or advisory need you describe.
• Everyone: the date of your submission and the consent choices you make.

Please do not include sensitive information such as health details or identity card numbers.

• To consider candidates for current and upcoming leadership roles.
• To respond to client enquiries and prepare for a first conversation.
• To keep a record of your consent and meet our legal obligations.

We do not sell personal data and we do not use it for direct marketing.

If you use our online search brief, the details you enter are sent to an AI model, through our technology provider, to draft a short summary for you to review. This happens only when you choose "Draft my summary". The AI provider processes the text to produce the summary and does not retain it. Nothing is sent to Ridgepath until you review the summary and confirm.

CVs are never sent to an AI model.

• Clients: we will never present a candidate's CV or details to a client without first discussing the role with the candidate and obtaining their agreement.
• Service providers: carefully chosen providers that host this website, store submissions and provide the AI summary feature, acting on our instructions.
• Where required by law or to protect our legal rights.

Our service providers may store or process data outside Hong Kong. Where they do, we take reasonable steps to ensure your data is protected to a comparable standard.

• Candidate CVs and details: if you ask us to keep your details on file, we keep them for up to 24 months. Otherwise we keep them only as long as needed to consider you for the roles we are working on, and then delete them.
• Client enquiries: for as long as needed to respond and, if we work together, for the duration of that engagement and our record-keeping obligations.

Submissions travel over an encrypted connection. CVs are held in private, encrypted storage that is not publicly accessible, and only the Ridgepath team can view submissions.

• You can ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, and ask us to correct it.
• You can withdraw your consent at any time, including asking us to delete your CV.
• Giving us your details is voluntary, but without them we cannot consider you for roles or respond to your enquiry.

To make a request, email information@ridgepathsearch.com. We will respond within the time required by law.

Ridgepath contacts people only from an @ridgepathsearch.com email address, the Managing Partner's LinkedIn profile or +852 6777 2137, and never asks candidates for payment.

We may update this notice from time to time; the version above shows the current one. For any privacy question, contact a Managing Partner at information@ridgepathsearch.com or write to us at Connaught Road, Hong Kong.